Word: wistfullness
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The proprietor of the puppet show, an Italian with a heart as big as an ox, and perhaps a head of the same quality, marries an elfin, wistful sprite of a wife a few minutes before charging off to war. On his return, he is deaf from the conflict, enabling...
The Book. Two undernourished young U. S. Hebrews-one fat, one skinny-came to fame in 1873 for their mutilations of the English language. Music-hall audiences rippled and rocked when they heard, just before an act came on, the plaintive offstage whisper of the fat one (Weber) to the...
The poems, as might be expected, show considerable range within the very real and living poetic spirit. "Rondeau" by Whitney Cromwell is a light but charming illustration of the escape into Paganism and pastoral pleasantness that has characterized a good deal of Harvard poetry. Mr. Cromwell has the vision and...
Different from all these writers, Ralph Manheim in "Ballade" captures a good deal of Coleridgian magic, and incidentally refreshes a form often too much like a metrical exercise in other hands, by a variation that gives it something of the fluent melody of terzarima. John Sherry Mangan, an enthusiastic an...
It will be recalled that this actress was welcomed by the London critics as one of the greatest of Americans (in Anna Christie). Her interpretation of the unlettered waitress who married by mail in the present play substantiates their judgment. So brilliantly did she play the part, so perfectly defined...